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...They still have the money coming in and we don't," said Al Brown, picket captain at a NYNEX special service center in Boston's Dorchester section. But the union vowed to stay on strike for as long as necessary...
Union spokespersons said picket lines had been drawn in front of at least 60 of NYNEX's 98 New England locations, but no other disturbances were reported yesterday...
There was apparently no movement on the issues that prompted the strike--chiefly a NYNEX plan to require workers to begin contributing to their health insurance costs--and the two sides were unable to agree on a negotiating format...
Stephen Early, representative of the Communication Workers of America (CWA), said NYNEX had refused joint negotiations with its two unions. CWA represents about 40,000 workers, primarily in New York, while the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers represents the other 20,000, mostly in New England, he said...
...NYNEX spokesperson Andrea Dudley said the company "is hopeful that negotiations can be resumed as quickly as possible...